No rest for the weary

City Hall today is deadly quiet, closed for Veterans Day and without a politician in sight. (Us journalists don’t get the day off, but we’re not bitter. Not at all.)

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The Elections Department: they like to count

But while the doors of the Elections Department in the basement are locked, the lights are on and staffers are inside – still counting ballots. They have 16,000 provisional ballots left to sort through and 9,000 mail-in ballots left to count that had write-in candidates or a mistake like somebody voting twice for one office.

John Arntz said he expects to release another ranked choice voting report Thursday to show how the seven supervisor races shook out.

His office released its eleventh update this afternoon with no notable changes except Jill Wynns appearing likely to keep her seat on the Board of Education.

The 16-year veteran of the school board at first looked destined to lose her seat to a newcomer, but now is comfortably in third place. Four seats are up for grabs, and Norman Yee, Sandra Fewer and Rachel Norton round out the top four so far.